Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions
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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Lance Arsenault wrote:
> Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software
> in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a
> lot of time, and hard drive space is cheeper than time.
>
> I have used Debian 1.3.1 in the past but I think that having packages
> that confict is a bad thing. I think that making all the packages
> in Debian compatable would be a big plus. In Debian 1.3.1 this is
> not the cast. For example you cannot install emacs and xemacs in Debian 1.3.1 .
> I'm guessing some of the filenames in these two packages are the same.
> To get rid of this confict you can just install them in different directories or
> something like that.
This issue was discussed just recently on this list. Some packages
naturally conflict. The emacs/xemacs conflict was resolved for 2.0, but
there are other cases where a conflict is simply a fact of life that can't
easily be avoided. The example that came up most frequently involved
smail, sendmail, exim, etc. It would make no sense to be able to install
each of these on a single system. Having them all installed at once would
lead to chaos, because they'd all be trying to do each others job (that
is, deliver mail for the system). Some package conflicts are inherent to
the nature of the package, not to the way Debian puts together its
distribution.
Noah
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